Article carrier



April 7, 1953 E. L. ARNESON 2,534,043

ARTICLE CARRIER 7 Filed Nov. 13, 1951 3 Sheets-Sheet l %Wm/ I IINVENTOR. Ida/472i. Zfiza mz,

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ARTICLE CARRIER Filed Nov. 15, 1951 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 P 7, 1953 E.ARNESON 2,634,043

. ARTICLE CARRIER Filed Nov. 13, 1951 3 Sheets-Sheet '5 IN V EN TOR.

Patented Apr. 7, 1953 ARTICLE CARRIER Edwin L. Arneson, Morris, Ill.,assignor to Morris Paper Mills, Chicago, 111., a corporation of Illinoisii This invention relates to improvements in paperboard carrier forbottles and similar articles of uniform -size and shape. A cellulararticle carrier is afforded thereby which provides full depth sideprotecticn for bottles placed in the cell's thereof, coupled with asuspending handle of increased strength and rigidity which also hasother attractive features.

This application is a continuation-impart of my copending applicationSerial No. 235,978, filed July 10, 1951. l. V wItisan object of theinvention'to provide an improved article carrier fabricated of apaperboard blank of aminimum size to provide a multiple-ply longitudinalpartition and handle panel fromuwhich certain'cross partition panels arecut, one of the longitudinal partition plies having a flap ofsubstantialsize hinged to the lower margin? thereof :and coveringcertain openings therein'lwhich resultfrom thecutting thereof toproduceethe. cross partition elements, and the top iiof ithehlongitudinal partition and handle panelflbeing stronglyreinforced byadditional partialdepthplies taken from anLarea of the blankwhichjwouldnormally represent; in the main, waste material, said carrierhaving integral side walls and bottom. 5, 1 l

1;.Another objectlis to provide a carrier of this, sort,. featuring ,aprotective ply disposed between other pliesof a, longitudinal partitionand handle members and .a' two-ply top reinforcing element for saidmembenin, which said element is exd nthe ma n from. a Qtherwisewa t arof ablank in such a manner as to provide a H fi surface at the topof themember, suitable single embodiment of the invention is presnted'hereinforpurpose of illustration. It'will bappreciatedlthat the invention maybe incorporatedm other modified forms coming equally within the scope ofthe appended claims.

In the drawings;

ffFigIl is a top plan view of the slitted anciteased'jfiekiblepaperboard blank from which the'improved' bottlecarrier is formed, showing preliminary gluing thereof;

" Fig 21s a top'plan view of the blank following "Application November13, 1951, Serial No.256,065 1 a l 2 Claims. (01. 229-28) a first foldingoperation also indicating the application of adhesive preceding a secondfold;

Fig. 3 is a top plan view showing the blank following the second foldand indicating a fur: ther application of adhesive; i 1 Figs. 4 and.5arev top plan views of the blank after still further manipulations;

Fig. 6 is a top plan view of the carrier inits finished, knocked downcondition; I 1. Fig. 7 is a perspective view in enlarged scale;partially broken away, showing the completed and erected carrier; v v

t Fig. 8 is a top plan view of the erectedcarrier;

and i V .Figs. 9 and 10 are, respectively, 'views in longitudinal and ltransverse vertical section along lines 9-9 and Ill-l0 of Fig. 8. VReferring to Fig. l of the drawings, the proved bottle carrier ismanufactured from a flexible paperboard blank 10. This blank istoaconsiderable extent symmetric about a medial horizontal crease line I lof a bottom forming sec-g tion I2,.whic h defines two like bottom panelsl3 in that section. Hence corresponding partsand relationshipsonopposite sides of crease line HQ are indicated by like referencenumerals, and only one set thereof is described. l

A rectangular side wall panel 14 is hinged to bottom section I2 by ahorizontal marginal crease l5, and this panel carries an end wall panel16,- hinged thereto by a vertical crease l1. Panel "i is provided with aglue lap I8, which is hinged thereto by crease l9. hnotched bottom,locking 11 9 is formed o h in 0 b t m extrem ty ofgluelaplB. H, l M Afurther end wall panel 2l is conjoined by crease 22 to the opposite endof sidewall panel [4. It is similar in size and shape to the other endwall panel l6. A crease 23 serves to hinge to one of the panels 2|alongitudinal partition and liandle'panel 24 and a corresponding crease23' in the other section of blank in acts to hinge to its end wall panela second longitudinal: par-'- tition and handle member, designated 24".v

An outer or top extension'of the crease 23 serves the purpose ofhinging' to partition andhandle member 24' an outer handle reinforcingand finishing member 25. This isTseparated from side, and end wallpanels l4, 2 l by a slit 26 which outlines the top margins thereof.Mem-i ber 25 is subdivided by a horizontal crease 21 into a pair ofouter reinforcing sections 28, 29 both of which are slitted and creasedto definehandhole tabs 30 of known sort. The purpose of member will behereinafterfldescribedhS The longitudinal partition and handle panels24, 24' are slitted and creased to set out similar cross partitionstructures. Like reference numerals, primed, are employed to designateparts or elements in panel 24 corresponding to those of panel 24.

Panel 24 is provided with a shaped slit 3| which outlines the freemarginal edge of a cross partition element-22 and a-glue lap-'33 on thatelement. The element is hinged to panel 24 by a crease 34 parallelingthe crease 23; the glue lap 33 is foldably connected to element 32 by aparallel crease 35. Slit 3! extends from a point beneath a grip portion36 of panel 24 inwardly the full dimension of the panel, terminating .at.a .point which coincides with the bottom of the latter.

A further cross partition panel element 31 is hinged to panel 24 bymeans of a short transverse crease 38 which is, in actuality, anextension of crease 35. Element 31 is freed from panel 24 by ahorizontal slit 39 extending from the outer terminus of .creasei38 tothe'right' hand side edge of panel .24. :Cross partition panel element31 isalso separated by the shaped slit 3] from the glue lap 33 .of theother .cross partition element 32. Panel element 37 carries its own gluelap 40,.-.which is hingedthereto by a vertical crease 4|.

The longitudinal partition and handle panel 24' differs from the panel24 in that its shaped slit 31', :which defines the-free edge ofcross'partition element 32' and its "hinged glue lap '33 is angledreversely at its inner extremity to intersect with a-horizontal bottomcrease 42 at the inner horizontal margin of panel 24'. It isreverselydirected along the line of said crease to the inner terminal ofthe-partition hinging crease 34".

A reinforcing and bottle-separating flap section 43 is separated'fromthe longitudinal partition and handle panel 24 by a horizontal slit 44which coincides with the inner or bottom margin of the last 'namedpanel. Section 43 is hinged to the inner. or bottom margin of the panel24' by the horizontal crease 42 and is foldable upwardly about-saidcrease in assembling the carrier, being disposed between thelongitudinal partition and handle panels 24, 24 in the completedcondition of the carrier, for a purpose to be described. The panels 24,24 are provided with U-shaped slits 46- and horizontal creases 4!connecting the ends thereof, thus to define jhandhole openi gs normallyclosed by hinged flaps 48, in a well known manner.

I-n'assembling the carrier from the blank H] -illustrated in Fig. l,adhesive is applied to the glue laps 33, 33', 4!), 40 and to theouter-portion of panel member 24', as [indicated by stippling. Panelmembers 24, 24' andtheir associated parts are'then foldedupwardly,inwardly and downwardly about creases 23, 23 respectively, causingtheglue lapsto adhere to the respective side walls l4 and the gluedportion of panel 24' to adhere to the portion 29 of the outerreinforcing handle member 25. This leaves the blank in the conditionshown in "Fig. 2.

Further adhesive is applied to terminal glue lallS l8 and to the exposedsurface of panel 24' as indicated by stippling Fig. 2. End wall panels I6 are now folded upwardly, inwardly and downwardly about creases l9,adhering the glue laps l8 to the upper portions of panels 24, 24'.Thesection 43 is next folded upwardly, inwardly end-downwardly about itshinge 42 into face-toface relation to the panel member 24', towhich itis thus adhered, leaving the blank in the conanion ill tr d in Ha 3.

Adhesive may now be applied, as indicated by stippling in Fig. 4, to thelongitudinal partition and handle panel 24, and a glue lap 18, afterwhich the two sections of the blank are folded about medial bottomcrease ll into adhered relation to one another as shown in Fig. 5.

The carrier is completed by applying adhesive to the exposed portion orsection ;28' .of the outer handle reinforcing and finishing member 25,as stippled in Fig. 5. This section is then folded about the subdividingcrease 21 and adhered to the exposed surface of the opposed panel 24,leaving the carrier in the completed, knock-down condition of Fig. .6.

. A shown inFigs. 7 and 9 the swinging of the cross partition panelelements 32, 32, 31, 31 about their respective integral hinges, inerecting the carrier, results in the presence of openings of substantialsize in the longitudinal partition panels 24, 24', due to the relativelylarge area and substantial height of the bottleseparating crosspartition panel :32, 3.2", 31, 3'! cut therefrom. The relatively largereinforcing and protecting section .43 covers these openin s and affordsfull depth bottle protection, without-consuming extra paperboard stock.Itis evident that the section 43 adds itsgst length and rigidity zto theassociated panels 24, 24' 0f the longitudinal partition and handle:unit. which these panels make up, affordin :improved rigidity for thispart.

When :the .carrier ,hasrbeen erected :to theset .up condition ofFigzfhone end of the bottom .12 is engaged over thelatchinglugs' 20.pn-the ,inturned and adhered glue laps 1:8,:thus :to hold ;the carrierin erected condition ready. for loading manually or by automatic loadingequipment.

Blank ID, as shown inFig. "1, is disposed with its smooth and finished,printed ordecoratedside underneath and its rough, unfinished surface.exposed. Hence it is seen that when the carrier is in the completedcondition illustrated in Figs. 6+10 inclusive the longitudinal partitionand suspending or handle unit of the carrier, made up of panels '24, 24and section 43, is externally encased along'its top by the two.-ply.outer rein.- forcing member 25. The exposed opposite sur, faces of thismember are finished in character and may bear ornamentation or printing.In addition, the rigidifying effect of the doubledover member 25 is, ofcourse, substantial. The carrier presents an entirely integral sidewalland bottom construction, free from glued joints likely to come apartwhen wet. Notwithstanding this the upper edge of the carrier handleis-fimished oil in very attractive manner. 7

Reference has been made to the-separation of flap section 43 from panel24 by slit-44. In actuality the flap is temporarily held to the panel,as the blank traverses the first stages of thefolding thereon-by nicks59. The same function is performed by the nicked connections-'- 5l-and52, respectively, between thehandle reinforcing member 25 and'sidewallpanel' i4 'andbetween the end cross partition elements 31, 31 andthe remainder of the respectivepanels'24,24'. The nicks readily ruptureas the associated parts are manipulated by a gluing and folding machine.

I claim;

1. A one-piece article carrier. blank of...fiexible paperboard stock,comprising two sets of, side wall, end wall and longitudinal partitionand handle-forming panels, the respective panels of each of said setsbeing integrally .connectedby vertical creases in'the order. named, aone-piece bottom-forming panel disposed between and integrally connectedby horizontal creases to adiacent bottom-defining margins of said sidewall panels, cross partition sections integrally hinged by verticalcreases to said partition and handleforming panels and swingable aboutthose hinge creases out of the planes of the respective last namedpanels, a protective section of substantial area integrally hinged by ahorizontal crease to a bottom-defining margin of one of said partitionand handle-forming panels, said protective section lying between saidpartition and handleforming panels and being readily displaceable byswinging about its said hinge crease out of the plane of one thereof,and a handle reinforcing unit associated with one of said sets ofpanels, said unit being integrally hinged by a vertical crease to an endof the partition and handleforming panel 01' its associated set andbeing separated at least in part by a cut from a topdefining margin ofthe end and side wall panels of said last named set, the outer margin ofsaid reinforcing unit lyingsubstantially outwardly, in the lateralsense, of the outer margin of its associated partition andhandle-forming panel and opposed outer margins of said side wall panelslying substantially inwardly of the outer margins of said respectivepartition and handle-forming 6 panels, said reinforcing unit occupying aspace between said separating out therefor and a longitudinal projectionof said outer margin of its associated partition and handle-formingpanel, and being provided with a horizontalcrease in substantialalignment with said outer margin of its associated partition andhandle-forming panel.

2. An article carrier blank in accordance with claim 1, in which saidprotective section hinge crease is disposed outwardly, in thelongitudinal sense, of the vertical crease hinging to'one another thepartition and handle-forming panel and the end wall panel of a panelset.

- EDWIN L. ARNESON.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,157,712 Miller Oct 26, 19152,525,686 Kowal Oct." 10, 1950 2,535,741 Lighter Dec. 26, 1950 2,537,615Arneson Jan. 9, 1951 2,584,689 Foster Feb. 5, 1952 2,586,301 Castle Feb.19, 1952

